Luis Suarez is a virtual shoo-in to lift the two main player of the year titles this season.

Yaya Toure faces a tough battle to win Manchester City’s club player of the year.

And yet, if you canvas Blues fans, not many would take a straight swap of their Ivorian midfield giant and Liverpool’s skilful hit-man.

The players have been voting this week for the PFA Player of the Year award, and the Football Writers Association version will not be far behind.

Suarez is a heavy odds-on favourite to win both baubles, having scored 28 league goals, and being the single biggest reason that Liverpool are fighting it out with City and Chelsea for the league title.

But Toure is third favourite, behind Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, and that is scandalous.

Perhaps it is because Toure has other contenders in his own team that his incredible contribution to City’s success story has not stood out as much as it should.

Don’t take this the wrong way – Suarez has been brilliant, and Sunderland boss Gus Poyet was not far wrong when he said the Scousers would be mid-table without him.

And yet Suarez has only scored once in six games against top four clubs this season.

Toure has been a constant in City’s magnificent form this season, and remains the man who pops up and produces a piece of magic when it is most needed.

He already has a winner’s medal in his pocket after producing a phenomenal goal in the Capital One Cup final which changed the course of that game.

And, despite being a holding midfielder to all intents and purposes, he has scored 21 goals this season, an astonishing return.

Not only that, the variety of goals makes his collection special – long-range smashes and curls, deadly free-kicks, ice-cool penalties, powerful surges with lethal finishes, and poachers’ tap-ins.